Ohio Country Antiques Show, April 12
It doesn’t get much more country than Wilmington, Ohio, a small town in rural southwestern Ohio, that is the home of the Ohio Country Antiques Show (www.queencityshows.com) twice a year (in April and October).  Show organizer Bruce Metzger started the show four years ago; this year, the show will include some 60 dealers who specialize in country antiques. Offerings will include folk art, painted furniture, quilts, coverlets, stoneware, weathervanes, and 19th-century furniture along country, primitive, and traditional lines. The venue is a small convention facility called the Roberts Centre. Wilmington is about an hour’s drive from Cincinnati and Columbus. “I had to focus the show because of the limited size of the convention center, so it has a very strong country feeling,” says Metzger. “There is no jewelry and there are no 20th-century collectibles.” The show’s hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; admission is $5.